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"The size of a small chicken... Surely not" I just had time to think to myself before scrolling down to THIS CHONKER.
Photo and quote from https://www.pigeontype.info/2017/04/28/french-mondain-pigeons-gros-mondain/
Meanwhile, in pigeon news: An episode of a show touched on French Mondain pigeons. And good heavens!
"The Mondain is an ancient French pigeon breed. It was kept at many farms and also by poultry fanciers. The breed was described in documents, found in 1824. A distinction was made between three types of Mondain:
The large Mondain that, according to Buffon, sometimes reached the weight of a small chicken. This type of Mondain was very large, very heavy and had red eye ceres. The feather colour varied, in fact they occurred in all know pigeon colours. The number of offspring was low, also they often trampled the eggs or crushed them with their heavy body during incubation."
"The size of a small chicken... Surely not" I just had time to think to myself before scrolling down to THIS CHONKER.
Photo and quote from https://www.pigeontype.info/2017/04/28/french-mondain-pigeons-gros-mondain/
Meanwhile, in pigeon news: An episode of a show touched on French Mondain pigeons. And good heavens!
"The Mondain is an ancient French pigeon breed. It was kept at many farms and also by poultry fanciers. The breed was described in documents, found in 1824. A distinction was made between three types of Mondain:
The large Mondain that, according to Buffon, sometimes reached the weight of a small chicken. This type of Mondain was very large, very heavy and had red eye ceres. The feather colour varied, in fact they occurred in all know pigeon colours. The number of offspring was low, also they often trampled the eggs or crushed them with their heavy body during incubation."
Idzie
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spring is coming!
#pigeon #pigeons #tauben #stadttauben #urbanwildlife #spring
spring is coming!
#pigeon #pigeons #tauben #stadttauben #urbanwildlife #spring
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw::paw:
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Behold, a feeding frenzy of Plum Sharks!
Plum sharks AKA kererū, the NZ wood pigeon.
Plums are in full fruit in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ, at the moment. I was on Valley Road today in Cashmere there were at least 11 kererū feasting in the plum trees up the side of the road.
I think plums are one of the big reasons that these birds venture down from the hills into the city at this time of year.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/333255361
#birds #fruigivory #plums #Prunus #woodpigeon #pigeons #kererū #nz #Christchurch #nature #iNaturalist #iNaturalistNZ
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Behold, a feeding frenzy of Plum Sharks!
Plum sharks AKA kererū, the NZ wood pigeon.
Plums are in full fruit in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ, at the moment. I was on Valley Road today in Cashmere there were at least 11 kererū feasting in the plum trees up the side of the road.
I think plums are one of the big reasons that these birds venture down from the hills into the city at this time of year.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/333255361
#birds #fruigivory #plums #Prunus #woodpigeon #pigeons #kererū #nz #Christchurch #nature #iNaturalist #iNaturalistNZ
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#Pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear https://www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-11-nordmann https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6425
"neurobiologists have identified a dedicated pathway for processing magnetic information that originates in the #InnerEar. This supports an inductive mechanism first proposed over 100 years ago, a concept that science forgot... Genetic analysis of inner ear tissue revealed cells with highly sensitive electric sensors, the same ones used by #sharks to detect their prey"
#Pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear https://www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-11-nordmann https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6425
"neurobiologists have identified a dedicated pathway for processing magnetic information that originates in the #InnerEar. This supports an inductive mechanism first proposed over 100 years ago, a concept that science forgot... Genetic analysis of inner ear tissue revealed cells with highly sensitive electric sensors, the same ones used by #sharks to detect their prey"
i finally got these tiny little guys to eat from my hand! 🥰💙
i don't know the species of #bird (anyone? #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdsofFediverse ?)
i have a vid of one sneaking in as some #pigeons eat. or, they come over when the #doves come to me for food at the pool
once one almost ate from my hand but a dove pecked it & ran it off. like they do to their own in the #video
it's too big for #Mastodon, so i put it w/ my other #pigeon vid on substack
The overengineered Solution to my Pigeon Problem
https://maxnagy.com/posts/pigeons/
#HackerNews #overengineered #solution #pigeons #techinnovation #problem-solving #humor
So what you're saying is 'Pigeons are smarter than what we call AI these days', yeah?